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TIL The Z-series Spacesuits look a LOT like Buzz Lightyear

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jGeE TIL In London from 1682 one could buy fire insurance: you attached a metal plate to their building ensuring that if there were a fire their insurance company would fight to extinguish it. If the building wasn’t insured the fire wasn’t put out unless it threatened to spread to an insured building.
69l1Z TIL that before about 1900, audiences routinely applauded while concerts were still in progress. Composers structured pieces to invite applause at specific points, and were worried if they did not elicit an audience response
KY6KR TIL Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.
xVg5D TIL of antinutrients, compounds that interfere with the absorption of nutrients.
VMnZ TIL: A species of locust with a uniquely large swarm density used to plague the United States and Canada until extinction in 1903, leaving western North America with an agricultural advantage over most other areas.